[MuttTheHoople]

Ever notice how Socialist countries always have "droughts" and "crop failures"? Funny how Free Countries have the same weather, yet are usually able to feed their own people.

P.S. If overcrowding caused poverty, then Japan and Belgium would be New Delhi-like hellholes.

[Clive]

About a year after the farm confiscations began, ZWNews posted pictures of what Mugabe had been calling "drought stricken" farms.

It was the strangest drought in history. It began and ended at boundary fences. Fences between the confiscated lands which were dry and dusty and those not yet confiscated that were green with maturing crops.

[Leisler]

Farming is hard, dirty, lonely, dangerous and money risking work.

Socialist systems can not afford, after the inefficiencies and skim is taken out to pay enough good quality people to do the work. They can get plenty of people in the fields, mucking about, but not enough who know what they are doing. People with that will, work, and knowledge just get up and leave. No different than a chess champion that defects. (It's kind along the same as productive people leaving Massachusetts, New York, Michigan just leaving the slaves and the hustlers)